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- Comment on It would get old fast 1 day ago:
Hell. I don’t want a huge house. And where’s the commerce and culture?
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 1 week ago:
Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.
I’d rather just text my friends
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 week ago:
I don’t think adult content should be stigmatized and quarantined. Why is a game about cutting terrified victims open with a handsaw cool, but a game about licking a clit needs to be isolated?
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 week ago:
The cops always park in the bike and pedestrian lanes in prospect park, and it makes me so mad.
Personally I feel like if you park in the bike lane for any reason that’s not life or death, people should be allowed to do what they want to your car. Maybe move it. Maybe key it. I don’t care. It’s a hazard for everyone.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 week ago:
I’ve lived here for almost two decades and I’ve almost never had a problem with bikes.
I did once see a driver make a right turn and hit a delivery bike kid, drag him for a few feet, and then speed off. Luckily, teenagers I guess are indestructible and the kid got up and rode away after a few minutes.
If you want better bike and pedestrian safety, the solution is probably build better bike lanes. There are a lot of spots with nothing, or a painted suggestion. There’s a spot near prospect park where they expect the bicyclist to turn right, pass through a lane of traffic, and then just hang out in the center lane with all the cars. It’s a nightmare.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
When I worked an old job in the office, the game of telephone from the CEO down was so bad. People would get in their head that some things were MUST HAVE, but if I sneakily just asked the CEO directly he’d be like “no that’s not important”. But the designer thought he wanted it so she told the product lead it was important so our team product guy was told this was “straight from the top”.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
And issues with communication are made worse when everything is pushed to text where nuance is lost and everything is archived which can be used against you.
There’s some truth to this, but also video chat is commonplace now. That can be recorded too, but so can anything. Some of my coworkers started using Signal for out of band communication even though zoom/slack said they didn’t retain any recordings.
If they can’t work remotely, they should be leveled up. Stop dragging everyone else down.
And again, if you can only communicate in person you’re probably bad at communicating in person, too, without realizing it. I think a lot of CEO types think they’re amazing because they walk into a room and everyone’s like “yeah boss got it that’s great feedback”, and they don’t realize they just said a bunch of garbage and people just agreed because he’s the boss.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
He would talk about how many people told him they were longing for the day when we could all be on-site again. I have no idea who those people were, because everyone I spoke to thought WFH was fantastic.
My old CEO would pull this bullshit, too. He’d say like “I’ve heard from people that [wild claim]”. The team was like 5 people it’s not like I couldn’t go ask people if they actually said that. I think it’s some sort of asshole-lying mechanism.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
I really dislike that a handful of people who can’t get their shit together to communicate over zoom are dragging everyone else (and the environment) down.
I’d also wager that some of those people also communicate badly in person, but at least do communication shaped activities so it gets a pass.
Like at my old job, there’d be long meetings both in person and over zoom where nothing would be accomplished. The problem is not if we’re in the same room or not. It’s that people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing at any level of this task. They don’t understand the system, and they don’t know how to run a meeting. The few times I just seized control and ran it like a D&D session went better. eg: "It’s not your turn. Please wait to speak. That’s an interesting idea but the
game we set out to playmeeting is about [topic], so we’re going to stay on topic. No,the rules say you can’t do thatthat’s not an option in a web browser.That worked fine in person and on zoom. The problem isn’t the medium. The problem is people.
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 1 week ago:
I mean that seems like it would be pretty effective.
- Comment on New Study Bolsters Public Health Case for a Four-Day Work Week 2 weeks ago:
I worked at a place that prided itself on being “data driven”. They put it on tshirts and made fun of startups they said were driven by emotions and gut feelings.
Someone brought up four day workweeks. They said every study they’d seen showed it was better for everyone involved.
The ceo, one of the big “data > feelings” guys, just laughed and said “we’re not doing that.”. Didn’t look at any data or studies. Just shut it down.
So I’m glad there’s another study about this, but I don’t know how to get through to the thin skinned leaders.
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 2 weeks ago:
Well, the context used to just be there. Now it’s not, and this is worse.
- Comment on Andrew Cuomo wants to become Mayor of New York City. This is his driving record. 2 weeks ago:
Fines should scale with wealth. Millionaire wants to speed? Okay, pay a $100,000 fine.
These same accounts keep denouncing tickets and speed cameras.
This is common conservative “Outgroups to bind, in-groups to protect” dysfunction. They’re bad people.
- Comment on Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here? 2 weeks ago:
Can we start reframing this as instead of “saved $500mm” we say “stole $500mm from labor”?
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 2 weeks ago:
Management are some combination of malicious and stupid.
The boss at my old job is pushing to make people go in. It’s like a 2 hour commute for half the team. He doesn’t care. He wants people working on the weekend, too
He’s an Iranian immigrant that loves musk. No one should be abducted and sent to a death camp but if they got him it would feel almost karmic.
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 2 weeks ago:
I’ve read that if you want to kill someone, the best way to do it is to hit them with your car. The authorities will just be like “Oh, well, he was walking and you hit him what a terrible accident. Well, couldn’t be helped.”
Maybe Kraft has a murder fetish. Probably he’s just a scumbag, though.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 3 weeks ago:
This kind of false equivalence is kind of annoying.
Doctors and serial killers both cut people, but they’re clearly not the same, are they?
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
- Comment on suckcess 3 weeks ago:
Related:
"ai will make you twice as productive!’
“Cool. So I’ll be paid twice as much, or work half the hours?”
“Lol no. I’m keeping the profits”
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don’t want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I’m on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it’ll remind me in a couple hours.
Sometimes for really important stuff I’ll set a timer myself, but that’s more steps than if the OS just had a “remind me later” built in.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 3 weeks ago:
I found a setting that alleged to enable snoozing, but it doesn’t seem to work. This is an older android phone though.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 3 weeks ago:
It would be helpful if my phone had a built in snooze function. Sometimes I get a text and I want to snooze it for an hour. Just dismiss the notification and remind me later.
mostly I avoid a lot of the big drains (social media, other than lemmy) and tell people I’ll get back to them within 24 hours.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 3 weeks ago:
I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I’ll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that’s not guaranteed.
- Comment on call of the void 3 weeks ago:
AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that’s probably true of most big org’s leadership.
- Comment on the field of frolickology is very vast 3 weeks ago:
At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.
- Comment on This is weird, I suppose, but do people sometimes feel they learn NOTHING from YouTube? 3 weeks ago:
Well, yeah. YouTube is a trash platform and pre-recorded video is a dubious medium for teaching.
The platform is trash because the incentives are not aligned with noble goals like “teach people things” or “spread the truth”. It’s “Get engagement” and “get ad impressions”. They also don’t moderate it much, so there’s a ton of slop and lies.
Video is passive. it’s easy to space out or just let it go in one ear and out the other. Most people learn in other ways. An actual lecture can have some back and forth, and a good teacher can engage a class. Books require more concentration. Doing exercises of some sort also force you to practice, and retain it. You could maybe do okay with video if you took notes (by hand I’m told is better), or otherwise engaged with the material in an active manner.
Also, dozens of videos a day? Go do something else. Read a book. Exercise. Play chess. Write something. Sign up for a class and atten. That’s so much passive intake you’re going to turn into a potato.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 3 weeks ago:
Everything Bethesda does is kind of bad. I’ll probably get them when they’re on sale, but I don’t expect anything good.
Get Larian to make a fallout game
- Comment on we are creators 3 weeks ago:
Feels like we’re going backwards now with like anti-vax stuff. A lot of tech seems to be getting worse for users, too, like IoT gadgets that stop working for remote reasons
- Comment on PC Gamer taking a jab at the industry 3 weeks ago:
Capitalism is giving bad outcomes. Labor is divorced from the results of their work, and people who contribute little to nothing (or less than nothing) grow wealthy.
We don’t need to go all the way to full communism in one shot, but I’d like to think most of us can agree the current system is unacceptable
- Comment on You gotta see this one 4 weeks ago:
I had the same thought, mostly because distracted driving is such a present threat that it’s hard to find humor in it.
But whatever. Someone’s probably going to be reading this while driving. Please stop.